Fire-maned Bowerbird

Fire-maned Bowerbird

Taxobox
name = Fire-maned Bowerbird
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Ptilonorhynchidae
genus = "Sericulus"
species = "S. bakeri"
binomial = "Sericulus bakeri"
binomial_authority = (Chapin, 1929)
The Fire-maned Bowerbird, "Sericulus bakeri" is a medium-sized, approximately 27cm long, bowerbird that inhabits and endemic to the forests of Adelbert Mountains in Papua New Guinea. The striking male is black with fiery orange crown and upperback, elongated neck plumes, yellow iris and golden yellow wing patch. The female is a brown bird with brown-barred whitish underparts.

Its diet consists mainly of figs, ants and insects. The bower itself is that of "avenue"-type with two sides of wall of sticks.

The Fire-maned Bowerbird was discovered in 1928 by Rollo Beck. The female is unknown to science until 1959.

Due to ongoing habitat loss and limited range, the Fire-maned Bowerbird is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5177&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=20140 IUCN Red List]


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